Carson McCullers Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Dreamer #Conscious
“The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!”
-- Carson McCullers

#Lonely #Heart #Fire
“Next to music beer was best.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Music #Beer #Next
“I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?”
-- Carson McCullers

#Beautiful #Running #Soul
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Travel #Homesick #Strange
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Communication #Writing #Love Is
“She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Fall #People #House
“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Freedom #Men #Trying
“The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Caring #Care
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
-- Carson McCullers

#Soul #Left Behind #Behinds
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Homesick #Nostalgia
“I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Loneliness #People #Essentials
“The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.”
-- Carson McCullers

#People #Darkness #Tomorrow
“Writing, for me, is a search for God.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Writing
“The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Philosophy #Color #Medicine
“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
-- Carson McCullers

#People #Giving #Might
“Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Courage #Humility #Imagination
“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Loneliness #Needs #Way
“There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Song #Book #Addresses
“The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Thinking #Imagination #Mind
“I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Lonely #Thinking #Differences
“I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.”
-- Carson McCullers

#God Knows
“All we can do is go around telling the truth.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Telling The Truth
“But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Jesus #Years #Two
“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Without You #Meant To Be Alone #Meant To Be
“Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Doctors #Hands #Half
“But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Atheist #Heart #Afternoon
“justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Justice #Yardsticks #Chimera
“Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Manhattan #Brooklyn #Brilliant
“I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.”
-- Carson McCullers

#Cat #Climbing #Tree

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